Ambition Quote by James Boswell

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

— Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh…

— Thomas Huxley

Perception all too often disguises an insecurity as something much more sinister, creating anger and frustration in places where only kindness should dwell.

— Andrea N Martin

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be. I'm able…

— Rose McIver

I'm a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.

— Lauren Cohan

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

— C. S. Lewis

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

— Thomas Chalmers

“Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box.…

— Susan Trott

“I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy,…

— Betrand Russell

I'm very mild-tempered. I like to think about what I do before I do it.

— Omarion